Taming time : Daoist ways of working with multiple temporalities / Livia Kohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kohn, Livia, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Religious aspects--Taoism.

Time.

Physical Description:

330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

[St. Petersburg, Florida] : Three Pines Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Time, literally, is of the essence. It is a key feature in all cultures, determining human thought, expectations, actions, and developments. The great master of time studies, J. T. Fraser, describes it in terms of six major temporalities that move at different speeds in unique environments. Matching the evolution of the universe, they include (1) the atemporal or timeless state of primordial chaos; (2) the prototemporal realm of quantum simultaneity; (3) the eotemporal long-term rhythms of the stars; (4) the biotemporal dimensions of living creatures; (5) the noötemporal phenomena of brain and mind; and (6) the sociotemporal world of clocks and calendars, history and society, analysis and philosophy.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Language: The Architect of Time

2. Core Concepts: Defining Temporality

3. Historical Unfolding: Cycles and Linearity

4. Measuring Time: Sociotemporality in Action

5. Modes of Perception: The Noetic Now

6. Memory and Identity: Constructing the Past

7. Mind Travel: Envisioning the Future

8. Biotemporality: The Rhythms of Life

9. Life Stages: From Womb to Tomb

10. Eotemporality: Planetary Timefulness

11. The Quantum World: Nonlocal Synchronicity

12. Atemporality: Ultimate Timelessness.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781931483483

1931483485

OCLC:

1221018851

Publisher Number:

99987776909